Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

New York Theory Day

IBM-NYU-COLUMBIA theory day on Dec 11 !
Here are pointers to more information:
here
and
here
and
here.

My advice: If you are able to go (distance, time, money all okay)
then you should go. If you are unable to go then you shouldn't go.

Will this by available on video later?
Also- if it is, will people actually watch it?
There is something about BEING at a talk that is given at
a particular time that seems more compelling then
being able to look at it whenever you want, and hence
not get around to looking at it.
~

Bandwidth is sometimes a problem. It makes me upset when I see video lectures (for instance from the Intractability Center or video.ias.edu) of 1 hour length taking more than 600MB. People in North America may not realize that there are places on the globe where bandwith is costly. For instance, I am living with a monthly 3GB cap. (And I am still priviledged.) It should not be a problem to produce much more compressed files. And for talks with slides there should be an option to get an audio file only.